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![]() Peter Pollock Peter Maclean PollockBorn: 30 June 1941, Pietermaritzburg, NatalMajor Teams: Eastern Province, South Africa. Known As: Peter Pollock Batting Style: Right Hand Bat Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Father: Pollock, SM; Brother: Pollock, RG; Test Debut: South Africa v New Zealand at Durban, 1st Test, 1961/62 Last Test: South Africa v Australia at Port Elizabeth, 4th Test, 1969/70 Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1966 Career Statistics:TESTS (career) M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St Batting & Fielding 28 41 13 607 75* 21.67 0 2 9 0 Balls M R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ Bowling 6522 270 2806 116 24.18 6-38 9 1 56.2 2.58 FIRST-CLASS (career: 1958/59 - 1971/72) M I NO Runs HS Ave 100s Ct St Batting & Fielding 127 177 43 3028 79 22.59 0 54 0 R W Ave BBI 5 10 Bowling 10620 485 21.89 7-19 27 2 LIST A LIMITED OVERS (career: 1969/70 - 1971/72) M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St Batting & Fielding 7 7 1 158 42* 26.33 0 0 2 0 Balls R W Ave BBI 4w 5w SR Econ Bowling 436 213 16 13.31 5-51 1 1 27.2 2.93 - Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS. StatsGuru Filters for Peter PollockProfile:South African cricket's debt to Peter Pollock is threefold: as the country's premier fast bowler during the 1960s, the last decade before South Africa's international isolation; as convener of selectors during the 1990s, when he gave an inexperienced team a vision and pattern (unsurprisingly based on disciplined and relentless seam bowling) that has made the side one of the game's top two teams; and as Shaun Pollock's father he played a not insignificant role in providing South Africa with its current Test captain and one of the world's leading all-rounders.The older Pollock brother ("Pooch" to Graeme's "Little Dog") learned his trade bowling to one of cricket's greatest batsmen in the backyard of their Port Elizabeth home. Something of a tearaway as a young bowler, Pollock never really lost his killer instinct even as age and dodgy knees began to take their toll. He formed a productive partnership with the Rhodesian swing bowler Joe Partridge in Australia in 1963/64 which enabled South Africa unexpectedly to draw the series 2-2, and another at the end of the decade with a youthful Mike Procter as Australia were beaten 3-1 and 4-0 in successive home series. For the Pollock brothers, though, few moments in their careers eclipsed the 1965 Trent Bridge Test, when Peter took 5/53 and 5/34 and Graeme made 125 and 59 as South Africa won by 94 runs, a victory that enabled them to take the three-Test series 1-0. Peter took 116 wickets in 28 Tests at 24.18 and also made two fifties to average 21.67 as a handy lower-order batsman. A trained journalist, Peter is now a lay preacher, and there are few more astute (or single-minded) judges in the game. (Peter Robinson, Copyright CricInfo April 2001)
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